I'm guessing only mircrsofts search engine will be able to index pages buried on the revised microsoft.com site until other search engines add silver-light navigation to their crawlers?
I don't know about anyone else but I use Google to find KB articles.
I thought strong passwords avoided the use of words as they are subject to brute force dictionary attacks.
An e.g. 8 character output of this method may be marginally more secure than one or two words that total 8 characters, but it is also very susceptible to a dictionary attack, maybe even more so as there is a good chance that animals and shapes would be the words chosen (not colours, names of people, verbs etc.).
Instead of buying a new monitor there appears to be a few solutions you can already do with your existing equipment:
There is a power strip available for $30-$40 that monitors the current to one of the outlets and when it goes under a predefined current load it switches off all the others - good for a PC in the main socket and all it's peripherals in the other ones.
You can implement a manual remote control of a socket or a power strip by using an X10 control module.
You can automate switching on/off peripherals by writing a scripts that are issued going into and coming out of standby / power on off on the pc to turn on/off an X10 socket(s) with peripherals using a X10 "PC" controller with serial / USB ( this is one of my project for this winter).
It was rumored pre-release that he G92 may have double precision floating point support. Is there any confirmation or firm denial of this? (the reviews I have seen have been far less technical on new chip features than in previous graphics card launches).
Actually I cam to the conclusion that all the Cable and DSL suppliers seem to think the Internet is HTML. That we all browse "WEB 1.0" sites.
To use an even older(?) example for many years, I've been wondering why they think it should take me 1 minute to download an email with a large attachment and then 8 minutes to send the edits back.
I would certainly be nice for those of us stuck with cable to be able to adjust or choose our own upload / download ratio. Perhaps with a simple web interface on the cable company support site, or even dynamically do it for us.
I was in Central china a few months ago on business. I was given no information when I landed about Internet policy from the official staff at the airport and nor did the hotel I stayed at provide any.
I got fast Internet in my room and proceed to web browse as normal.I used IM and skype from my local connection too.
I noticed that sometimes the BBC news site would load and sometimes it would not. During those "down" times I simply used hamachi to VPN to my server at home and browse from there via Remote Desktop. I guess this is no different to corporate laptops that proxy though their companies VPN for all web activities.
In short I guess the great firewall was overrated?
On a similar note why was one of the replacement cables to short? Where the specificaitons wrong or the manufacturer wrong? or cables used in the wrong places - "look the one we have left is too short"?
As an owner I can suggest that the Nissan 350Z needs this feature first as it has arguably the worst rear visibility of any of the current cars in the Nissan line up.
I remember the early days of dual socket MBs. SMB always meant to me same clock frequency and same cpu revision, or else there would be bsod. The number of cores always seemed a non issue.
any idea if the disabled core can be rotated around the chip to allow higher over clock or better thermals ala moving holes in a semiconductor. this could be implemented in hardware i guess?
I have often heard in open vs. closed graphics driver binaries the reasons that manufactures keep the source closed is that it contains a lot of proprietary technology and a lot of licenced / patented technology.
Now I realise that ATI/AMB have only released specs, but at some point in an open source driver development will someone "re-invent the wheel" and come up with a technique that is already patented.
What will happen in that scenario? Will open source drivers always be held back in this respect?
Do you think AMD wiould apply for permission to use the tehcnoologies for the open source drivers to continue support for the open source driver effort?
Also the opposite scenario, what happens if an open source coder comes up with a valuable new technique for graphics drivers and graphics display that no one has patented before? Having an open source driver faster / more useful than a closed source driver will defintly be an interesting scenario as to use it the the AMD's and nVidia's would need to open up everything correct?, which they are supposed unable to do...
The way I interpreted the original post is the development of a machine that is smarter / more-intelligent / more creative etc. etc. than all of the 6 billion+ humans on the planet (at the moment) or who have ever existed (there are some dead people who were very cleaver).
Thinking of that for a moment, you would have a mind that was the best in every measurable (and not yet measurable or quantifiable) sense. i believe such a mind would not be impossible to converse with or relate to (if it was based upon human mind constructs, needs, desires etc.). That would indeed be a very remarkable machine / computer / mind. It may also, because of it's hardware work at speeds much faster than a human mind (so not a conversation as such but more like writing letters back and forth).
However I would not see such a mind as one that could over come the combined resources / intelligence / creativity of the 6 billion+ humans on the planet working together (assuming a conflict of interest that escalated to a conflict) - the machine and it's ability would have to be a significant fraction of population of Earth before things got uncomfortable/dangerous.
Spam, pop-up, viruses etc. would be a major distraction and a source of amusement to your class, so I would suggest that the machine has very good virus and spy-ware protection and is NEVER used for personal Internet access or any education unrelated programs and stays off the Internet while running during your class (unless you must show them an online page in real time - save an offline copy of the page for the class).
Remember, you will have some sharp eyed students in your class who will work out your email address, IM user names, IM friends list, what programs you have installed etc.etc. if they even so much as see any related program window or start menu for a split second.
Never update any piece of software of windows for that matter just before a class (if it isn't broken don't fix it)
..Being British and living in the USA is being a TV niche or minority watcher.
I have often been torn with having to buy a cable package of 300+ digital channels just to get BBC America to see the BBC world news feed once a day (no I don't care about a local TV station covering a local cat stuck up a local tree).
I am also annoyed that I need to get expanded analogue to get the only other 2 channel that I want from cable : SciFi and Comedy Central.
There are many fine series I like to watch on some of the major networks (e.g. FOX) and it pleases me I can get them in HD for free off-air with a $100 set-top box or $50 HD tuner card for my PC.
So I just took the plunge - Major networks for Free over-air in HD, listen to BBC world service while reading Slashdot in the morning (the video feed is too low bit rate to stomach) and waiting on the series DVD's of south park and battlestar to make it to netflix.....
So far I feel good about saving $100 a month - that is until someone tells me a plot spoiler...
Looks like a mini northbridge - just memory and no PCIe or AGP or anything else.
I wonder what the latency hit is going to be with lots of them on a server and moving data from one branch of a tree to another? BR>
I guess if they don't deviate from HT3 spec too much lots of other applications could emerge for this chip, with the inclusion of partnerships to bring DSP's and other accelerators / CPU alternatives to the server line this is turning more and more into Lego.
I may be a bit wrong on this but I remember UK show tomorrows world covering the CD before it was launched, they showed how you could scratch the surface with metal pads and it still played. IIRC they had a Dire Straits album on display next to it (though not necessarily the first CD).
It took me a while to get my first CD player (my parents had had one for a few years), I think it was around 1994 - which happened to be a 2x SCSI CD-ROM drive for some PC work I was doing. The CD needed inserting into a cartridge first before you could put it in the drive. I remember friends with HI-FI CD players were amazed at the track seek time I had (practically instant) - I had to remind them that this was optimized for read access, 4-5 seconds they were experiencing would kill it for PC applications. I also experimented with ripping, but soon stopped as my hard drive space was an order of magnitude smaller than the CD, and compression consisted of re sampling at 12Khz 8bit if I wanted to play about with loops and do silly things off the hard drive, no MP3 (that I knew of or had software to process) for me in those days.
It was only a year or two later that as a student I could afford a CD HI-Fi sperate unit (and amp, and speakers) of my own.
Within another 2 years I had a 2x CD burner - then the fun really started.:-)
Ok, I live in the USA and discuss the relative merits of the UK vs. USA education system quite often with my firends and colleges.
Using myself as an example here is how it works (in the UK)....
oh wait... I have to go in reverse chronological order for it to make sense.....
I work in a (USA) Laser Company as a Scientist. To get this job I needed a PhD in Laser Physics so I made sure I had one.
I did a PhD in Laser Physics (which was about 20 hours of courses at the start (in laser physics) and then 3 years it the lab doing novel research work for publications and my Thesis. I did NO other subjects but the field of my PhD in that time.
To get on the Laser Physics PhD course I needed a Degree in Physics so I took one of them (a 4 year Masters Degree) - by the way there is not really a concept of major and minor studies in the UK, when you do a university degree in physics you do 40 hours of week of Physics lessons for 3-4 years and nothing else.
To get on the University Physics Degree Program I needed high school "A levels" qualifications in Physics, Maths and another science subject - so I chose those courses when I was 16 (and for 2 years of hte A-level studies, I only did those 3 subjects.
To get on the physics and maths A level courses at high school I needed to take Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, (and a few other subjects) at GCSE level so I choose those high school courses when I was 14 (and stopped learning History and other areas of study as I had no specifically chosen as GCSE's).
I didn't know how to take this route so I had my first career and university counseling aged 12 and I decided then I wanted to be a Scientist.
Telling most people in the USA this usually results in horror upon their faces.
Seems that there are credible reports coming in that in the last 24 hours AT+T have increased EDGE speeds to >200 k bits/s. This should be good news to all AT+T EDGE users:
As we know, increased means they probably removed some artificial cap....
I wonder how many days will go by until the drop the speed again? I guess there will be a halo effect of new iPhone buyers showing their friends - "hey look at this I can browse the web" - just for the sake of it....
Does the iphone browser incorporate a server side compression system (a la Opera Mobile)? - that would seem to be a good solution for speeding up a slow data link to a device that has limited display capabilities anyway.
How about some plugins to block graphical advertisements or other unwanted content on popular sites (a la greasemonkey) ?
There are so many options to optimize web browsing for such devices - this slowness web surfing MUST have come up in beta testing - what solutions are included?
Taking the argument from the Windows vs. OSX debates, does this mean that if Intel have more desktops in our homes the hackers would target Intel's CPU bugs before AMD's ?
PI just bought a PC with an Intel CPU, in fact, this is the first PC I've owned with an intel CPU in 8 years Been building my own AMD computers since that time. But it's hard to build a UPPC so I got the new Samsung Q1U.
I was under the impression that the A110 series processor in it was a Core2 derivative, but the Intel site states it is a Pentium M derivative.
It doesn't get old reading about big media and how they get very worried when power comes to the people. We all now have the opportunity to copy, place shift, time shift and archive our tv shows on our schedules, even go as far as re-broadcast mash ups (a la The Daily show - he said what then he said what?), edits (no adverts anyone?) or just plain rips with our home PC's and an Internet connection.
Reminds me of when (cassette) tape to tape desks became common and people started doing their own compilations to listen to in their order, and started mailing clubs to swap mix tapes. The big media were up in arms then that it would be the end of music sales....
Oh well , another good reason to have your own media PC so you don't end up foul of a firmware update that blocks your certain shows after a court case between your hardware manufacturer and a media company.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm guessing only mircrsofts search engine will be able to index pages buried on the revised microsoft.com site until other search engines add silver-light navigation to their crawlers?
I don't know about anyone else but I use Google to find KB articles.
I thought strong passwords avoided the use of words as they are subject to brute force dictionary attacks. An e.g. 8 character output of this method may be marginally more secure than one or two words that total 8 characters, but it is also very susceptible to a dictionary attack, maybe even more so as there is a good chance that animals and shapes would be the words chosen (not colours, names of people, verbs etc.).
Instead of buying a new monitor there appears to be a few solutions you can already do with your existing equipment: There is a power strip available for $30-$40 that monitors the current to one of the outlets and when it goes under a predefined current load it switches off all the others - good for a PC in the main socket and all it's peripherals in the other ones. You can implement a manual remote control of a socket or a power strip by using an X10 control module. You can automate switching on /off peripherals by writing a scripts that are issued going into and coming out of standby / power on off on the pc to turn on/off an X10 socket(s) with peripherals using a X10 "PC" controller with serial / USB ( this is one of my project for this winter).
It was rumored pre-release that he G92 may have double precision floating point support. Is there any confirmation or firm denial of this?
(the reviews I have seen have been far less technical on new chip features than in previous graphics card launches).
Actually I cam to the conclusion that all the Cable and DSL suppliers seem to think the Internet is HTML. That we all browse "WEB 1.0" sites.
To use an even older(?) example for many years, I've been wondering why they think it should take me 1 minute to download an email with a large attachment and then 8 minutes to send the edits back.
I would certainly be nice for those of us stuck with cable to be able to adjust or choose our own upload / download ratio. Perhaps with a simple web interface on the cable company support site, or even dynamically do it for us.
So you think my pc or the hotels connection is flagged as a foreigner and allowed through?
I had no problem researching the local area using Wikipedia, I would have thought that is on the banned list?
I was in Central china a few months ago on business. I was given no information when I landed about Internet policy from the official staff at the airport and nor did the hotel I stayed at provide any.
I got fast Internet in my room and proceed to web browse as normal.I used IM and skype from my local connection too.
I noticed that sometimes the BBC news site would load and sometimes it would not. During those "down" times I simply used hamachi to VPN to my server at home and browse from there via Remote Desktop. I guess this is no different to corporate laptops that proxy though their companies VPN for all web activities.
In short I guess the great firewall was overrated?
On a similar note why was one of the replacement cables to short? Where the specificaitons wrong or the manufacturer wrong? or cables used in the wrong places - "look the one we have left is too short"?
As an owner I can suggest that the Nissan 350Z needs this feature first as it has arguably the worst rear visibility of any of the current cars in the Nissan line up.
I remember the early days of dual socket MBs. SMB always meant to me same clock frequency and same cpu revision, or else there would be bsod. The number of cores always seemed a non issue.
any idea if the disabled core can be rotated around the chip to allow higher over clock or better thermals ala moving holes in a semiconductor. this could be implemented in hardware i guess?
Anyone taken one apart and verified if there is bluetooth hardware in it?
Stereo bluetoth headphone support is long overdue for ipods. If hte hardware is there software coudl be round the corner?
I have often heard in open vs. closed graphics driver binaries the reasons that manufactures keep the source closed is that it contains a lot of proprietary technology and a lot of licenced / patented technology.
Now I realise that ATI/AMB have only released specs, but at some point in an open source driver development will someone "re-invent the wheel" and come up with a technique that is already patented.
What will happen in that scenario? Will open source drivers always be held back in this respect?
Do you think AMD wiould apply for permission to use the tehcnoologies for the open source drivers to continue support for the open source driver effort?
Also the opposite scenario, what happens if an open source coder comes up with a valuable new technique for graphics drivers and graphics display that no one has patented before? Having an open source driver faster / more useful than a closed source driver will defintly be an interesting scenario as to use it the the AMD's and nVidia's would need to open up everything correct?, which they are supposed unable to do...
What are your thoughts on this?
The way I interpreted the original post is the development of a machine that is smarter / more-intelligent / more creative etc. etc. than all of the 6 billion+ humans on the planet (at the moment) or who have ever existed (there are some dead people who were very cleaver).
Thinking of that for a moment, you would have a mind that was the best in every measurable (and not yet measurable or quantifiable) sense. i believe such a mind would not be impossible to converse with or relate to (if it was based upon human mind constructs, needs, desires etc.). That would indeed be a very remarkable machine / computer / mind. It may also, because of it's hardware work at speeds much faster than a human mind (so not a conversation as such but more like writing letters back and forth).
However I would not see such a mind as one that could over come the combined resources / intelligence / creativity of the 6 billion+ humans on the planet working together (assuming a conflict of interest that escalated to a conflict) - the machine and it's ability would have to be a significant fraction of population of Earth before things got uncomfortable/dangerous.
Spam, pop-up, viruses etc. would be a major distraction and a source of amusement to your class, so I would suggest that the machine has very good virus and spy-ware protection and is NEVER used for personal Internet access or any education unrelated programs and stays off the Internet while running during your class (unless you must show them an online page in real time - save an offline copy of the page for the class).
Remember, you will have some sharp eyed students in your class who will work out your email address, IM user names, IM friends list, what programs you have installed etc.etc. if they even so much as see any related program window or start menu for a split second.
Never update any piece of software of windows for that matter just before a class (if it isn't broken don't fix it)
..Being British and living in the USA is being a TV niche or minority watcher.
I have often been torn with having to buy a cable package of 300+ digital channels just to get BBC America to see the BBC world news feed once a day (no I don't care about a local TV station covering a local cat stuck up a local tree).
I am also annoyed that I need to get expanded analogue to get the only other 2 channel that I want from cable : SciFi and Comedy Central.
There are many fine series I like to watch on some of the major networks (e.g. FOX) and it pleases me I can get them in HD for free off-air with a $100 set-top box or $50 HD tuner card for my PC.
So I just took the plunge - Major networks for Free over-air in HD, listen to BBC world service while reading Slashdot in the morning (the video feed is too low bit rate to stomach) and waiting on the series DVD's of south park and battlestar to make it to netflix.....
So far I feel good about saving $100 a month - that is until someone tells me a plot spoiler...
Looks like a mini northbridge - just memory and no PCIe or AGP or anything else.
I wonder what the latency hit is going to be with lots of them on a server and moving data from one branch of a tree to another?
BR> I guess if they don't deviate from HT3 spec too much lots of other applications could emerge for this chip, with the inclusion of partnerships to bring DSP's and other accelerators / CPU alternatives to the server line this is turning more and more into Lego.
I may be a bit wrong on this but I remember UK show tomorrows world covering the CD before it was launched, they showed how you could scratch the surface with metal pads and it still played. IIRC they had a Dire Straits album on display next to it (though not necessarily the first CD). It took me a while to get my first CD player (my parents had had one for a few years), I think it was around 1994 - which happened to be a 2x SCSI CD-ROM drive for some PC work I was doing. The CD needed inserting into a cartridge first before you could put it in the drive. I remember friends with HI-FI CD players were amazed at the track seek time I had (practically instant) - I had to remind them that this was optimized for read access, 4-5 seconds they were experiencing would kill it for PC applications. I also experimented with ripping, but soon stopped as my hard drive space was an order of magnitude smaller than the CD, and compression consisted of re sampling at 12Khz 8bit if I wanted to play about with loops and do silly things off the hard drive, no MP3 (that I knew of or had software to process) for me in those days. It was only a year or two later that as a student I could afford a CD HI-Fi sperate unit (and amp, and speakers) of my own. Within another 2 years I had a 2x CD burner - then the fun really started. :-)
Ok, I live in the USA and discuss the relative merits of the UK vs. USA education system quite often with my firends and colleges.
Using myself as an example here is how it works (in the UK)....
oh wait... I have to go in reverse chronological order for it to make sense.....
I work in a (USA) Laser Company as a Scientist. To get this job I needed a PhD in Laser Physics so I made sure I had one.
I did a PhD in Laser Physics (which was about 20 hours of courses at the start (in laser physics) and then 3 years it the lab doing novel research work for publications and my Thesis. I did NO other subjects but the field of my PhD in that time.
To get on the Laser Physics PhD course I needed a Degree in Physics so I took one of them (a 4 year Masters Degree) - by the way there is not really a concept of major and minor studies in the UK, when you do a university degree in physics you do 40 hours of week of Physics lessons for 3-4 years and nothing else.
To get on the University Physics Degree Program I needed high school "A levels" qualifications in Physics, Maths and another science subject - so I chose those courses when I was 16 (and for 2 years of hte A-level studies, I only did those 3 subjects.
To get on the physics and maths A level courses at high school I needed to take Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, (and a few other subjects) at GCSE level so I choose those high school courses when I was 14 (and stopped learning History and other areas of study as I had no specifically chosen as GCSE's).
I didn't know how to take this route so I had my first career and university counseling aged 12 and I decided then I wanted to be a Scientist.
Telling most people in the USA this usually results in horror upon their faces.
With Samsungs "budget" Q1 Ultra at the same price point (with 800mhz CPU, 60gb hard drive, 1 gb Ram, Windows Vista ) I fail to see how this will sell.
Some may point out that Windows Vista is not a selling point - but neither is Windows CE.
Seems that there are credible reports coming in that in the last 24 hours AT+T have increased EDGE speeds to >200 k bits/s. This should be good news to all AT+T EDGE users:
r s-seeing-sudden-boost-in-edge-speeds/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/atandt-custome
As we know, increased means they probably removed some artificial cap....
I wonder how many days will go by until the drop the speed again? I guess there will be a halo effect of new iPhone buyers showing their friends - "hey look at this I can browse the web" - just for the sake of it....
Does the iphone browser incorporate a server side compression system (a la Opera Mobile)? - that would seem to be a good solution for speeding up a slow data link to a device that has limited display capabilities anyway.
How about some plugins to block graphical advertisements or other unwanted content on popular sites (a la greasemonkey) ?
There are so many options to optimize web browsing for such devices - this slowness web surfing MUST have come up in beta testing - what solutions are included?
Taking the argument from the Windows vs. OSX debates, does this mean that if Intel have more desktops in our homes the hackers would target Intel's CPU bugs before AMD's ?
PI just bought a PC with an Intel CPU, in fact, this is the first PC I've owned with an intel CPU in 8 years Been building my own AMD computers since that time. But it's hard to build a UPPC so I got the new Samsung Q1U.
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I was under the impression that the A110 series processor in it was a Core2 derivative, but the Intel site states it is a Pentium M derivative.
http://www.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/31690
My gut feeling is that it has inherited deigns from both (since Core 2 is a Pentium M derivative).
So does it have a serious bug too? (that we haven't been told about yet)
It doesn't get old reading about big media and how they get very worried when power comes to the people. We all now have the opportunity to copy, place shift, time shift and archive our tv shows on our schedules, even go as far as re-broadcast mash ups (a la The Daily show - he said what then he said what?), edits (no adverts anyone?) or just plain rips with our home PC's and an Internet connection.
Reminds me of when (cassette) tape to tape desks became common and people started doing their own compilations to listen to in their order, and started mailing clubs to swap mix tapes. The big media were up in arms then that it would be the end of music sales....
Oh well , another good reason to have your own media PC so you don't end up foul of a firmware update that blocks your certain shows after a court case between your hardware manufacturer and a media company.